Cougar Olympians

BYU has a strong history of swimmers and divers in the Olympics Games. Twenty two former Cougar student-athletes and one coach have competed at 11 different Olympics representing nine different countries.
 

Men's Diving
Athlete Name Event(s) / Position Finish Location, Year Country  BYU Years
Keith Russell Platform, springboard 4th, 6th Mexico City Summer, 1968 USA 1971-72
Ricardo Velarde Platform 19th Montreal Summer, 1976 Mexico 1977-81
Justin Wilcock 3-meter springboard 32nd Athens Summer, 2004 USA 1997-98, 2000-02
Men's Swimming
Athlete Name Event(s) / Position Finish Location, Year Country  BYU Years
Mike Burton (Coach) 400m free, 1,500m free Gold, Gold Mexico City Summer, 1968 USA 1974-75
Mike Burton (Coach) 1,500m free, 4x200 free relay Gold, Gold Munich Summer, 1972 USA 1974-75
Piero Ferracuti 100m breast, 200m breast Heats, Heats Munich Summer, 1972 El Salvador 1975-79
Oon Jin Gee 4x100m medley, 4x100m free, 100m free 16th, 17th, 42nd Los Angeles Summer, 1984 Singapore 1984-87
Ron Menezes 4x100 freestyle relay, 100m freestyle 10th, 28th Los Angeles Summer, 1984 Brazil 1981-85
David Lim 4x100m medley, 4x100m freerelay, 100m back 16th, 17th, 29th Los Angeles Summer, 1984 Singapore 1984-87
David Lim 100m back, 4x100m free, 4x100m medley, 200m back, 200m medley, 200m freestyle 14th, 15th, 17th, 31st, 34th, 43rd Seoul Summer, 1988 Singapore 1984-87
Ng Yue Meng 4x100 medley relay, 100m breaststroke, 200m breaststroke 17th, 41st, 47th Seoul Summer, 1988 Singapore 1988-90, 1992-94
Oon Jin Gee 100m free, 100m medley, 100m free, 50m free, 200m free 15th, 17th, 43rd, 45th, 46th Seoul Summer, 1988 Singapore 1984-87
Kai Kristian Johansson 200m butterfly 36th Barcelona Summer, 1992 Finland 1988-93
Tomislav Karlo 4x100 medley relay, 100m backstroke 16th, 34th Atlanta Summer, 1996 Croatia 1989-93
Arunas Savickas 200m backstroke 35th Atlanta Summer, 1996 Lithuania 1997-2001
Lee Yu (Gary) Tan 100m backstroke, 200m backstroke 45th, 37th Sydney Summer, 2000 Singapore 1999-2004
Arunas Savickas 200m backstroke, 200m freestyle, 4x100m freestyle 22nd, 22nd, 16th Sydney Summer, 2000 Lithuania 1997-2001
Jung Jun (Mark) Chay 200m freestyle, 100m freestyle 23rd, 47th Sydney Summer, 2000 Singapore 2003-07
Lee Yu (Gary) Tan 200m individual medley 43rd Athens Summer, 2004 Singapore 1999-2004
Diogo de Oliveira Yabe 200m medley 26th Athens Summer, 2004 Brazil 2001-05
Jung Jun (Mark) Chay 200m freestyle, 100m freestyle 51st, 56th Athens Summer, 2004 Singapore 2003-07
Andrew Rutherfurd 100m freestyle 41st London Summer, 2012 Bolivia 2007-08, 2010-14
Rafael Alfaro 400m medley 35th London Summer, 2012 El Salvador 2010-15
Josue Dominguez 100 breast, 200 breast 39th, 35th Tokyo Summer, 2020 Dominican Republic 2018-23